I felt it. Perhaps it was some animal instinct in me, or perhaps it was my delicate, sensitive nature. Either way, it weighed on me. Within the vast ritual built by human desire and fantasy, creatures were killed as a matter of course — torn apart, sold at high prices, owned, and paraded. All of it was a question to me.Why does it have to be this way? Why is it taken for granted? Why must we fol..